Armadillos

From Chattahoochee Bend

I surprised him (her? how do you tell?) rooting around in the leaves. He scurried into his hole. I waited, getting my camera ready. They have very poor eyesight - I probably looked like a tree standing there. He poked his head back out and I took his picture.

I've been seeing a lot of them lately. My theory, which may be totally bogus, is that it's too cold at night for them to forage, so they have been coming out when the temperature warms up in the afternoon. It was probably 50 degrees when I took that picture.